The Farish Street Entertainment District downtown is among the unrealized economic development projects Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba worked to get back on track.

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Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba did not live to witness what will happen next to unrealized economic development projects in the city, from the Farish Street Entertainment District downtown to revitalizing U.S. 80 in south Jackson.

But his eight months in office, city business leaders say, are enough to suggest the advocacy of Lumumba, who died Tuesday at age 66, was laying the type of groundwork that could help the state's capital city finally reinvent itself as a place to work and live.

One stalled effort that could gain steam soon from the late mayor's efforts is construction of a roughly ...